Fredrik Backman

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Fredrik Backman (2014)

Carl Fredrik Backman (born June 2, 1981 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish writer and blogger . In 2013 he was named the most successful author in Sweden.

Life

Backman grew up in Helsingborg and began studying religious studies, which he dropped out. He worked as a truck driver, restaurant assistant and forklift driver in a department store. In spring 2007 he was hired by the Stockholm newspaper Moore Magazine . A year and a half later, he quit there and worked freelance from then on.

Backman was originally known as a blogger in Sweden. He wrote columns for the newspapers City i Skåne , Moore , Vecko-Revyn , Café , Vi Föräldrar and from 2012 for Metro . In 2012 he made his debut with En man som heter Ove , which has sold over 600,000 times. The easy entertainment novel about a grumpy early retiree was broadcast in more than 25 languages ​​worldwide and in the 2014 translation A man named Ove also became a bestseller in Germany. It was made into a film in 2015 . His second novel Grandma sends his regards and says she's sorry was also very successful internationally.

Backman has been married since 2009. He and his wife live with their two children in Solna near Stockholm.

Works

  • Übers. Stefanie Werner: A man named Ove . Novel. Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2014 ISBN 978-3-8105-0480-7 (En man som heter Ove, 2012)
  • Übers. Stefanie Werner: Everything my little son needs to know about the world . Novel. Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt 2017 ISBN 978-3-5961-9782-8 (Saker min son behöver veta om världen, 2012)
  • Übers. Stefanie Werner: Grandma sends her regards and says she is sorry . Novel ISBN 978-38-10-50481-4 (Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt, 2013)
  • Übers. Stefanie Werner: Britt-Marie was here . Novel ISBN 978-3-8105-2411-9 (Britt-Marie var här, 2014)
  • Übers. Antje Rieck-Blankenburg : Small city of big dreams . Novel. Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt 2017 (Björnstad, 2016)
  • Übers. Antje Rieck-Blankenburg: We against you . Novel. Fischer Krüger, Frankfurt 2019 (Vi mot er, 2017)

Web links

Commons : Fredrik Backman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Man Called Ove (Backman) - Author Bio. Accessed May 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Fredrik Backman: "Jag kan ju aldrig hålla strength". Metro, April 15, 2012, accessed May 24, 2015 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ FREDRIK BACKMAN ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b About Fredrik Backman. S. Fischer Verlage, accessed on May 24, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Britt-Marie var här. Adlibris, accessed May 24, 2015 (Swedish).
  6. ↑ Fredrik Backman: "A man named Ove" ( Memento from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Backman, Fredrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Backman, Carl Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH June 2nd 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm